Historian and architectural expert William Brumfield discovers one of the most remarkable sites in the Russian north. Great Solovetsky Island. Transfiguration Monastery. Northwest view from ...

With its UNESCO-listed monastery and unspoilt forests and lakes, the Solovetsky archipelago is a place of almost ethereal beauty, and arriving by boat today is an uplifting experience, but during the ...

At the beginning of the 20th century, the Russian chemist and photographer Sergei Prokudin-Gorsky invented a complex process for vivid, detailed color photography (see box text below). Inspired to use ...

On August 17, 2014, the 10th Sunday after Pentecost, His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia celebrated a Divine Liturgy at the Church of Crucifixion of the Lord of the Golgotha ...

Solovetsky monastery: The beautiful setting hides past crimes, as a gulag where one million inmates are thought to have died. Photo / Getty Images The ghosts of Russia's past haunt the remote ...

When you look up "Volga tours" on the Internet, most advertise a quick St. Petersburg-to-Moscow trip, though technically neither city is on the Volga. But the Volga is more than a river. It is an ...

The Solovetsky Islands, or Solovki, are an archipelago located in the White Sea’s Onega Bay. The six islands of the archipelago cover an area of 347 square kilometers. The islands and a five-kilometer ...

It took nine days in unheated train carriages for the first Soviet prisoners to get from Moscow to Solovki – the infamous forced labour camp on the Solovetsky Islands, a small archipelago isolated ...